Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] not [art] point " in BNC.
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| 1 | At 100–1 he was the longest-priced winner in the history of the race , but that was not the point . |
| 2 | In fact , railway bills were being passed every session which made a grosser interference , but that was not the point . |
| 3 | That bullet would be lucky to go a hundred yards , but that was not the point . |
| 4 | Nobody dared to claim that Dukakis represented anything in particular or that he could reliably arouse anything more than a snore , but that was not the point . |
| 5 | Some fun and a few games were certainly unavoidable ( there are colleagues who always go too far ) , but that was not the point of the Party 's annual seaside jamboree . |